Posted by Rory at 12.06pm
Filed under: Player Watch
Categories: Player Watch
Busy week this one! Scottish Rugby is like buses – it makes a mess of Edinburgh city centre.
The SRU have announced that they are withdrawing from bidding for the 2013 IRB Sevens World Cup (potentially the last before it goes Olympic) due to (yet again) a lack of broadcaster interest. And Ally Hogg is to [...]
Posted by Rory at 4.36pm
Filed under: Scotland National Team
Categories: Scotland National Team
Scotland squad: John Barclay (Glasgow Warriors), Johnnie Beattie (Glasgow Warriors), Mike Blair (Edinburgh), Kelly Brown (Glasgow Warriors), Ben Cairns (Edinburgh), Geoff Cross (Edinburgh), Chris Cusiter (Glasgow Warriors), Simon Danielli (Ulster), Nick De Luca (Edinburgh), Alasdair Dickinson (Gloucester), Thom Evans (Glasgow Warriors), Ross Ford (Edinburgh), Phil Godman (Edinburgh), Alex Grove (Worcester Warriors), Dougie Hall (Glasgow Warriors), [...]
Posted by Rory at 3.31pm
Filed under: Magners League, Player Watch, Rugby on TV
Categories: Magners League · Player Watch · Rugby on TV
So this weekend we had both Edinburgh and Glasgow beating top clubs (if not their top teams) and the arrival of a new TV programme. Marvellous!
First up were Edinburgh who took Cardiff to the cleaners in the first half through some solid forward play from the relatively under-rated talents of Hoggy, Roddy Grant and Alan [...]
Posted by Rory at 10.36am
Filed under: British and Irish Lions, World of Rugby
Categories: British and Irish Lions · World of Rugby
… Mike Blair, not so much.
Scotland’s patchwork Sevens squad did the nation proud and narrowly missed out on beating IRB series winners South Africa to a place in their first cup final. In front of a home crowd sunning its pasty white self beneath rare Scottish sunshine (tops off at the first opportunity as expected), [...]
Posted by Rory at 7.34pm
Filed under: Magners League, Player Watch
Categories: Magners League · Player Watch
Cardiff 14 – 36 Edinburgh
Edinburgh put together a solid performance in defence coupled with some excellent counter-attacking rugby to snatch a record second place finish in the Magners League with an away victory in the last match to be played at Cardiff Arms Park. A few decisions from Irish ref Simon McDowell that were controversial [...]
Posted by Rory at 2.18pm
Filed under: Magners League, Player Watch
Categories: Magners League · Player Watch
It’s about that time of year when the pre-Six Nations player roundabout starts, so with that in mind I have a few snippets for you.
Rob Dewey returns to Murrayfield this week (alongside former Scotland coach and silver surfer Matt Williams) with Ulster, and rumours are flying that he has begun negotiations with the SRU for [...]
Posted by Rory at 10.27am
Filed under: Adventures in Rugby, Blog, British and Irish Lions, Heineken Cup, Player Watch, Rugby on TV
Categories: Adventures in Rugby · Blog · British and Irish Lions · Heineken Cup · Player Watch · Rugby on TV
Glasgow 9-15 Toulose
In the first half this was there for the taking, but by the time the second half got into its stride so did Toulose, With a couple of moments of typical clinical brilliance from Jauzion and Skrela forcing Glasgow to chase the result, and they actually came very close on a couple of [...]
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